بورمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bur- (“to twist, to wring”); cognate with Azerbaijani burmaq.

Verb

بورمق • (burmak)

1. (transitive) to twist, wring, screw, to turn the ends of something in opposite directions
2. (transitive) to castrate, to strangulate the neck of the scrotum in order to sterilize
3. (intransitive) to gripe, twinge, to cause a pinching and spasmodic pain in the bowels

Derived terms

• بوران (buran, “twisting, that twists”)
• بوردرمق (burdurmak, “to make or let be twisted”)
• بورش (buruş, “pucker, wrinkle”)
• بورغاچ (burgaç, “twist, bend”)
• بورق (buruk, “twisted, pinched”)
• بورقلمق (burkulmak, “to be sprained”)
• بورلمق (burulmak, “to be twisted or screwed”)
• بورم (burum, “single twist or torsion”)
• بورمه (burma, “act of twisting”)
• بورنمق (burunmak, “to pinch and gripe”)
• بورون بورمق (burun burmak, “to tweak a nose”)
• بویون بورمق (boyun burmak, “to wring the neck”)
• طوداق بورمق (dudak burmak, “to make a face as when about to weep”)
• قول بورمق (kol burmak, “to twist one's arm”)
• قولاق بورمق (kulak burmak, “to pull one's ears”)

 

Related terms

• بورغو (burgu, “borer, drill”)
• پورچك (pürçek, “curl, ringlet”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: burmak
• → Armenian: պուռմիշ (puṙmiš), պուրմիշ (purmiš)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “burmak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 704
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بورمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 130a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بورمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 284
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Torquere”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1680
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بورمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 915
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bur-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بورمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 395